ecstasy

The head of the Montreal police anti-drug unit says police raids have netted alarmingly large quantities of ecstasy and speed in the province, indicating that Quebec is likely a major exporter of the party drugs to other North American markets

Preliminary toxicology results released by the RCMP Tuesday showed the presence of paramethoxymethamphetamine (PMMA) — a substance believed to be five times more toxic than ordinary ecstasy — in a 38-year-old Red Deer man who died of a drug overdose on Dec. 10

The newest case came to light when the coroner’s office reviewed previous deaths and found PMMA (paramethoxymethamphetamine) in the system of a 43-year-old man who died in July 2011 — four months earlier than what was previously believed to be the first case in Calgary

Nationalism and politics Rick Salutin, writing in the Toronto Star, argues that the purchase of Canadian publishers McClelland and Stewart by a predatory German über-publisher constitutes a blow against “Canadian cultural nationalism.” But it lives on elsewhere, he suggests, not least in those beer commercials that make our toes curl with their expert manipulation of […]

Consider that a divorce? Emmett Macfarlane, writing for Maclean’s, provides a most welcome primer on the issue of whether same-sex couples married in Canada but residing in foreign jurisdictions that don’t recognize same-sex marriage are entitled to divorce — or whether they’re even married at all, in the eyes of Canadian law. (Justice department lawyers […]